As if 2020 couldn't get any weirder, airline pilots landing at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Sunday, August 30th, reported seeing "a guy in a jetpack" flying about 300 yards off their wing while on final approach to the bustling airport. What makes the reports even stranger is that, like a scene out of The Rocketeer, the airliners were descending through 3,000 feet when jetpack guy showed up next to them.
Fox 11 broke the story and has the air traffic control audio clips which you can listen to here. The exchanges went like this according to their report:
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The writer at the link uses a lot of space with "It might have been this, or it might have been that." Why not just say the 2020 Rocketeer was successful and has come out of the basement? The 1950s Saturday afternoon movie serials had all the background needed.
ReplyDeleteSure, but did the JetPack have any fricken LASERS?
ReplyDeleteHollywood's doing a remake of the 1952 flick: "Radar Men from the Moon" where the main character "Commando Cody" soars across the California sky in a jetpack.
ReplyDeleteDid they see the Rocketeer salute? More importantly, did anyone see a young Jennifer Connelly hanging around?
ReplyDeleteWe have all heard of bird strikes, now wait until we start having man in a jet pack strikes
ReplyDeleteMylar balloons.....
ReplyDeleteI hate Mylar balloon.
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